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Category Archives: Law and Order

FBI Director Comey Doesn’t Understand the 1st Amendment

May 5, 2017 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice International Relations Media Media Freedom National Security War Crimes Wikileaks Leave a comment

Truth Against the Machine Article: AR Police Maliciously Overcharge Diamond Pipeline Protester

March 25, 2017 Criminal Justice Due Process Environment Environmental Protection Legal Injustice Oil Pollution Truth Against the Machine Leave a comment

President Trump Takes Office Today…Welcome to the Era of Idiocracy

January 20, 2017 Civil Rights Conservative Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Defense Policy Donald Trump Economic Crisis Educational Policy Environmental Policy Environmental Protection extremism Foreign Policy Health Policy Immigration Policy Insane Republicans Policy Tax Policy 1 Comment

Beware the Intelligence Establishment Escalating Tensions with Russia

December 16, 2016 2016 Election CIA Conspiracy Theories Donald Trump Foreign Policy Hillary Clinton International Relations Iraq National Security Russia Voting 1 Comment

12 Nightmarish Consequences of a Donald Trump Presidency – Part 1

November 14, 2016 Civil Rights Conservative Defense Policy Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection extremism Foreign Policy global climate change Health Policy Immigration Policy Partisan Fighting Policy Racism Supreme Court Tax Policy Torture 1 Comment

America Elects Trump, What this Means, How it Happened, and Who is to Blame

November 9, 2016 2016 Election Civil Rights Conservative Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Voting 3 Comments

An Honest Argument for Hillary Clinton, from a Bernie Supporter

September 30, 2016 2016 Election Bernie Sanders Conservative Current Events Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Neo-Conservatives Policy Progressive Racism Terrorism Voting 2 Comments

DOJ Announces a Reduction in its Private Prison Usage…With One Enormous Caveat

August 23, 2016 Corruption Criminal Justice DOJ Immigration Policy lobbying Private Prisons Privatization Undocumented Immigration 3 Comments

Summarizing the GOP Convention: Fear and Loathing in Cleveland

July 23, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Corruption Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Inequality Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Racism Republicans Social Conservative Tea Party Terrorism Undocumented Immigration War Crimes 1 Comment

In Aftermath of Istanbul Terror, Trump wants us to Become More like ISIS

June 30, 2016 Civil Rights Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans ISIS Islam Terrorism Torture War War Crimes 1 Comment

SCOTUS Erodes 4th Amendment, Legitimizing Evidence from Illegal Searches

June 24, 2016 4th Amendment Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Law and Order Legal Injustice Supreme Court 5 Comments

Terrorist Kills 50 in Shooting Rampage at Orlando Nightclub, Extremism a Real Danger in the Aftermath

June 12, 2016 2nd Amendment Civil Rights Domestic Surveillance Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Gun Control guns ISIS Islam Law and Order Racism Terrorism War 1 Comment

Democrats Need to Stop Underestimating Donald Trump

May 23, 2016 2016 Election Democrats Donald Trump extremism Hillary Clinton Insane Republicans Media Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Republicans Tea Party Terrorism Trans-Pacific Partnership War 3 Comments

Using Triangulation to Predict the Consequences of a Trump, Hillary, or Bernie Presidency

May 12, 2016 Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Conservative Corporatism Defense Policy Democrats Deregulation Donald Trump Educational Policy Environment Environmental Policy Foreign Policy Health Policy Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Insane Republicans Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive Republicans Tax Policy Tea Party Trans-Pacific Partnership War 7 Comments

Panama Papers Expose the Global Elite’s Shadowy Web of Corruption and Tax Dodging

April 5, 2016 Corporatism Corruption Economics Hillary Clinton Inequality International Relations Obama Tax Policy Taxation Trade Trans-Pacific Partnership Trickle Down Economics 2 Comments

Dear Republicans: Your Presidential Primary is Embarrassing the USA and Causing Real Foreign Relations Problems

April 1, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Discrimination Donald Trump extremism Foreign Policy Insane Republicans International Relations Racism Republicans Ted Cruz Terrorism Voting 3 Comments

Trump is Dangerously Close to Invalidating Godwin’s Law

March 16, 2016 Civil Rights Current Events Discrimination Domestic Terrorism Donald Trump extremism Insane Republicans Police State Racism Republicans Terrorism Torture 24 Comments

After Bernie’s Record-Setting Win in Michigan and a Strong Debate Performance, What is His Path Forward?

March 10, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Corporate Greed Corporatism Current Events democracy Democrats Environmental Policy Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Money in Politics Policy Political Debate propaganda Trans-Pacific Partnership Undocumented Immigration 2 Comments

Rex Iverson’s Death Illustrates True “American Exceptionalism”

February 29, 2016 Defense Policy education Educational Policy Health Policy Inequality Policy Prison Privatization propaganda Tax Policy Taxation 5 Comments

The Progressive Cynic’s Case for Bernie Sanders: Part #3

January 29, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary banksters Bernie Sanders Big Banks Constitution Corporate Greed Corruption Defense Policy Democrats Foreign Aid Hillary Clinton Iraq Military Multi-National Corporations Regulation Terrorism TPP Trade Deal War Leave a comment

The Progressive Cynic’s Case for Bernie Sanders: Part #1

January 26, 2016 2016 Election 2016 Primary Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination gay rights gender equality Hillary Clinton Immigration Policy Inequality marriage equality Policy political candidates Progressive Racism Women's Rights 1 Comment

Somebody Needs to go to Jail for Poisoning Flint’s Water Supply

January 8, 2016 Austerity Corruption Criminal Justice democracy Environment Environmental Policy Environmental Protection 10 Comments

Right Wing Terrorists Occupy Federal Building

January 5, 2016 Conservative Criminal Justice Domestic Terrorism extremism Gun Control Tea Party 4 Comments

Prosecutor Sabotages Own Case, Denies Justice to 12-Year Old Victim of Police Violence

December 29, 2015 Criminal Justice Discrimination Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Racism 5 Comments

The 5th GOP Debate: Mindless Brutality, Calls to Commit War Crimes, and Fact-Free Bloviating

December 16, 2015 Civil Rights Conservative Constitution Donald Trump extremism International Relations ISIS Partisan Fighting Racism Republicans Tea Party Ted Cruz Terrorism War War Crimes 25 Comments

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